On this day in:
• 1938: The animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released and had major success in the box-office, making more money than any other motion picture up till that point.
• 1959: Today was the first day of the invention of the Barbie Doll. This doll was created by Ruth Handler, who was one of the founders of the Mattel Company. Barbie was named after Ruth’s daughter. Later on, when the Ken doll was made, it was named after Ruth’s son.
• 1974: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley, California by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• 1997: A civil jury panel in Santa Monica, California had determined that O.J. Simpson was guilty of the deaths of both his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. He had originally been acquitted in the year 1995.
• 2004: The Massachusetts high court declares that gays are entitled to get married.
• 2004: Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
• 2013: The government of France has overturned a two-hundred-year law that banned women from wearing trousers. The law had effectively been out of use for several years as people just ignored the law, however the change would make it formally legal for women to wear trousers.
So – Happy Birthday Facebook.
Have a fangtastic day my friends!
<3 Brock V"""V
Have a fangtastic day my friends!
<3 Brock V"""V
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